
THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 





Commoniwealtji of iHasgiacijusetts* 



IN THE YEAR ONE THOUSAND EIGHT HUNDRED AND 
SEVENTY-FOUR. 



AN ACT TO INCORPORATE THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 



Be it enabled by the Senate and Hoiife of Reprefentatives, in General Court 
ajfevtbled, and by the authority of the fame, as follows : 

Section i. John Ward Dean, J. Wingate Thornton, Edmund F. Slafter, 
and Charles W. Tuttle, their affociates and fucceffors, are made a corporation 
by the name of the Prince Society, for the purpofe of preferving and extending 
the knowledge of American Hiftory, by editing and printing fuch manufcripts, 
rare tra6ls, and volumes as are moftly confined in their ufe to hiltorical ftudents 
and public libraries. 

Section 2. Said corporation may hold real and perfonal eftate to an 
amount not exceeding thirty thoufand dollars. 

Section 3. This aft fhall take efFe6l upon its paffage. 

Approved March 18, 1874. 



Note. — The Prince Society was organized on the 25th of May, 1858. 
What was undertaken as an experiment has proved fuccefsful. This Act of 
Incorporation has been obtained to enable the Society better to fulfil its 
object, in its expanding growth. 



THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 



CONSTITUTION. 

Article I. — This Society Ihall be called The Prince Society ; 
and it Ihall have for its obje6l the publication of rare works, in 
print or manufcript, relating to America. 

Article II. — The officers of the Society fhall be a Prefident, 
four Vice-Prefidents, a Correfponding Secretary, a Recording 
Secretary, and a Treafurer ; who together fhall form the Council 
of the Society, 

Article III. — Members may be added to the Society on the 
recommendation of any rnember and a confirmatory vote of a 
majority of the Council. 

Libraries and other Inftitutions may hold memberlhip, and be 
reprefented by an authorized agent. 

All members fhall be entitled to and fhall accept the volumes 
printed by the Society, as they are iffued from time to time, at the 
prices fixed by the Council ; and memberfhip Ihall be forfeited by 
a refufal or negle6t fo to accept the faid volumes. 

Any perfon may terminate his memberfhip by refignation ad- 
dreff ed in writing to the Prefident ; provided, however, that he fhall 
have previoufly paid for all volumes iffued by the Society after the 
date of his ele6lion as a member. 

Article IV. — The management of the Society's affairs Ihall 
be veiled in the Council, which fhall keep a faithful record of its 

proceedings, 
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proceedings, and report the fame to the Society annually, at its 
General Meeting in May. 

Article V. — On the anniverfary of the birth of the Rev. 
Thomas Prince, — namely, on the twenty-fifth day of May, in every 
year (but if this day fhall fall on Sunday or a legal holiday, on 
the following day), — a General Meeting fhall be held at Bofton, in 
Maffachufetts, for the purpofe of elefting officers, hearing the 
report of the Council, auditing the Treafurer's account, and tran- 
fa6ling other bufmefs. 

Article VI. — The officers fhall be chofen by tlie Society an- 
nually, at the General Meeting ; but vacancies occurring between 
the General Meetings may be filled by the Council. 

Article VII. — By-Laws for the more particular government 
of the Society may be made or amended at any General Meeting. 

Article VIII. — Amendments to the Conftitution maybe made 
at the General Meeting in May, by a three-fourths vote, provided 
that a copy of the fame be tranfmitted to every member of the 
Society, at leaft two weeks previous to the time of voting thereon. 

COUNCIL. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 

1. The Society fhall be adminiftered on the mutual principle, 
and folely in the intereft of American hiflory. 

2. A volume fhall be iffued as often as pra6licable, but not more 
frequently than once a year. 

3. An editor of each work to be iffued fhall be appointed, who 
fhall be a member of the Society, whofe duty it fhall be to pre- 
pare, arrange, and condu6l the fame through the prefs ; and, as he 
will neceffarily be placed under obligations to fcholars and others 

for 
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for affiftance, and particularly for the loan of rare books, he fhall 
be entitled to receive ten copies, to enable him to acknowledge and 
return any courtefies which he may have received. 

4. All editorial work and official fervice fhall be performed 
gratuitoufly, 

5. All contra6ls conne6led with the publication of any work 
Ihall be laid before the Council in diflin6T: fpecifications in writ- 
ing, and be adopted by a vote of the Council, and entered in a 
book kept for that purpofe ; and, when the publication of a volume 
is completed, its whole expense fhall be entered, with the items 
of its coft in full, in the fame book. No member of the Council 
fliall be a contractor for doing any part of the mechanical work 
of the publications. 

6. The price of each volume fhall be a hundredth part of the 
coft of the edition, or as near to that as conveniently may be ; and 
there shall be no other affeffments levied upon the members of 
the Society. 

7. A fum, not exceeding fix hundred dollars, rnay be held by 
the Council as a working capital ; and, when the balance in the 
treafury fhall exceed that fum, the excefs fhall be divided, from 
time to time, among the members of the Society, by remitting 
either a part or the whole cofl of a volume, as may be deemed 
expedient. 

8. All moneys belonging to the Society fhall be depofited in the 
New England Truft Company in Bofton, unlefs fome other banking 
inftitution fhall be defignated by a vote of the Council ; and faid 
moneys fhall be entered in the name of the Society, fubje6l to the 
order of the Treafurer. 

9. It shall be the duty of the Prefident to call the Council to- 
gether, whenever it may be neceffary for the tranfa<5lion of bufinefs, 
and to prefide at its meetings. 

10. It shall be the duty of the Vice-Prefidents to authorize all 
bills before their payment, to make an inventory of the property 

of 
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of the Society during the month preceding the annual meeting, 
and to report the fame to the Council, and to audit the accounts 
of the Treafurer. 

11. It fliall be the duty of the Correfponding Secretary to iffue 
all general notices to the members, and to condudl the general 
correfpondence of the Society. 

12. It Ihall be the duty of the Recording Secretary to keep a 
complete record of the proceedings both of the Society and of 
the Council, in a book provided for that purpofe. 

13. It Ihall be the duty of the Treafurer to forward to the 
members bills for the volumes, as they are iffued ; to fuperintend 
the fending of the books ; to pay all bills authorized and indorfed 
by at leaft two Vice-Prefidents of the Society ; and to keep an 
accurate account of all moneys received and difburfed. 

14. No books fhall be forwarded by the Treafurer to any mem- 
ber until the amount of the price fixed for the fame fhall have 
been received ; and any member negledling to forward the faid 
amount for one month after his notification, lliall forfeit his mem- 
berftiip. 




OFFICERS 



OF 



THE PRINCE SOCIETY. 



Prefident. 
JOHN WARD DEAN, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Vice-Prefidents. 

JOHN WINGATE THORNTON, A.M Boston, Mass. 

The Rev. EDMUND F. SLAFTER, A.M. . . . Boston, Mass. 

WILLIAM B. TRASK, Esq Boston, Mass. 

The Hon. CHARLES H. BELL, A.M Exeter, N.H. 

Correfponding Secretary. 
CHARLES W. TUTTLE, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Recording Secretary. 
WILLIAM H. WHITMORE, A.M Boston, Mass. 

Treafurer. 

ELBRIDGE H. GOSS, Esq Boston, Mass. 

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The Hon. Charles Francis Adams, LL.D. . . . Bofton, Mafs. 

Samuel Agnew, Efq Philadelphia, Pa. 

Salomon Alofsen, Efq Jerfey'City, N.J. 

Thomas Coffin Amory, A. M Bofton, Mafs. 

William Sumner Appleton, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

George L. Balcom, Efq Claremont, N.H. 

S. L. M. Barlow, Efq New York, N.Y. 

Nathaniel J. Bartlett, A.B Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. Charles H. Bell, A.M Exeter, N.H. 

John J. Bell, A.M Exeter, N.H. 

Samuel L. Boardman, Efq Augufta, Me. 

The Hon. James Ware Bradbury, LL.D. . . . Augufta, Me. 

John M. Bradbury, Efq Ipfwich, Mafs. 

J. Carfon Brevoort, Esq Brooklyn, N.Y. 

George Brinley, A.M Hartford, Ct. 

J. Bernard Brinton, M.D Philadelphia, Pa. 

John Carter Brown, A.M Providence, R.I. 

John Marftiall Brown, A.M Portland, Me.' 

Hubbard W. Bryant, Efq Portland, Me. 

The Hon. Edmund Burke Claremont, N.H. 

Thomas O. H. P. Burnham, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Charles L Buftinell, Efq New York, N.Y. 

George Bigelow Chafe, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. MeHen Chamberlain, A.M Chelfea, Mafs. 

Lucius E. Chittenden, A.M New York, N.Y. 

Ethan N. Coburn, Efq Charleftown, Mafs. 

Jeremiah Colburn, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Deloraine P. Corey, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Eraftus Corning, Efq Albany, N.Y. 



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Abram E. Cutter, Efq Charleftown, Mafs. 

William M. Darlington, Efq Pittf burg, Pa. 

Henry B. Dawfon, Efq Morrifania, N.Y. 

Charles Deane, LL.D Cambridge, Mafs. 

John Ward Dean, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

The Rev. Henry Martyn Dexter, D.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Samuel Gardner Drake, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Harry H. Edes, Efq Charleftown, Mafs. 

Jonathan Edwards, Jr., A.B., M.D New Haven, Ct. 

Samuel Eliot, LL.D Bofton, Mafs. 

The Rev. George E. Ellis, D.D Bofton, Mafs. 

A. L. Elwyn, M.D -Philadelphia, Pa. 

John Elwyn, Efq Portfmouth, N.H. 

James Emott, Efq New York, N.Y. 

The Hon. William M. Evarts, LL.D New York, N.Y. 

Charles S. Fellows, Efq Chicago, 111. 

John S. H. Fogg, M.D Bofton, Mafs. 

William F. Fowle, Efq. .......... Bofton, Mafs. 

Samuel P. Fowler, Efq Danvers, Mafs. 

The Hon. Richard Frothingham, LL.D. . . . Charleftown, Mafs. 

James E. Gale, Efq Haverhill, Mafs. 

Marcus D. Gilman, Efq Montpelier, Vt. 

The Hon John E. Godfrey Bangor, Me. 

Abner C. Goodell, Jr., A.M Salem, Mafs. 

Elbridge H. Gofs, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. Horace Gray, LL.D Bofton, Mafs. 

William W. Greenough, A.B Bofton, Mafs. 

Ifaac J. Greenwood, A.M New York, N.Y. 

Charles H. Guild, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. Robert S. Hale, LL.D Elizabethtown, N.Y. 

C. Fifke Harris, A.M Providence, R.I. 

The Hon. Francis B. Hayes, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Francis S. Hoffman, Efq Philadelphia, Pa. 

James F. Hunnewell. Efq Charleftown, Mafs. 

Theodore Irwin, Efq Ofwego, N.Y. 

William Porter Jarvis, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

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John S. Jennefs, A.B New York, N.Y. 

Edward F. de Lancey, Efq New York, N.Y. 

John J. Latting, A.M New York, N.Y. 

Thomas J. Lee, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Jofeph Leonard, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

John A. Lewis, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Winftow Lewis, A.M., M.D. ....... Bofton, Mafs. 

William T. R. Marvin, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

William F. Matchett, Efq Bofton, Mafs 

Frederic W. G. May, Efq Bofton, Mass. 

The Rev. James H. Means, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

George H. Moore, LL.D New York, N.Y. 

The Hon. James W. North Augufta, Me. 

George T. Paine, Efq Providence, R.I. 

Daniel Parifti, Jr., Efq New York, N.Y. 

Francis Parkman, LL.B Bofton, Mafs. 

Auguftus T. Perkins, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

The Rev. William Stevens Perry, D.D. . . . Geneva, N.Y. 

William C. Peters, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

John V. L. Pruyn, A.M Albany, N.Y. 

Samuel S. Purple, M.D New York, N.Y. 

The Rev. Alonzo H. Quint, D.D New Bedford, Mafs. 

Edward S. Rand, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Edward S. Rand, Jr., A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

The Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Charles C. Smith, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Samuel T. Snow, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. Thomas Spooner Reading, Ohio. 

George Stevens, Efq Lowell, Mafs. 

Edwin W. Stoughton, Efq New York, N.Y. 

The Hon. Benjamin F. Thomas, LL.D. . . . Bofton, Mafs. 

John Wingate Thornton, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

William B. Towne, A.M. Milford, N.H. 

William B. Traflc, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. William H. Tuthill ....... Tipton, Iowa. 

Charles W. Tuttle, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 



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George W. Wales, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Joseph B. Walker, A.M Concord, N.H. 

Thomas Waterman, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Miss Rachel Wetherill Philadelphia, Pa. 

Henry Wheatland, A.M., M.D Salem, Mafs. 

William 'H. Whitmore, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

Henry Auftin Whitney, A.M Bofton, Mafs. 

The Hon. Marfhall P. Wilder Bofton, Mafs. 

Henry Winfor, Efq Philadelphia, Pa. 

The Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, LL.D Bofton, Mafs. 

Charles Levi Woodbury, Efq Bofton, Mafs. 

Aftibel Woodward, M.D Franklin, Ct. 

The Hon. Thomas H. Wynne Richmond, Va. 

LIBRARIES. 

American Antiquarian Society Worcefter, Mafs. 

Amherft College Library Amherft, Mafs. 

Bofton Athenaeum Bofton, Mafs. 

Bofton Library Society Bofton, Mafs. 

Britifti Mufeum . . London, Eng. 

Concord Public Library Concord, Mafs. 

Free Public Library Worcefter, Mafs. 

Grofvenor Library Buffalo, N.Y. 

Hiftorical Society of Pennfylvania Philadelphia, Pa. 

Long Ifland Hiftorical Society Brooklyn, N.Y. 

Maffachufetts Hiftorical Society Bofton, Mafs. 

Mercantile Library New York, N.Y. 

New England Hiftoric Genealogical Society . . Bofton, Mafs. 

Newburyport Public Library, Peabody Fund . . Newburyport, Mafs. 

Public Librar}'^ of the City of Bofton .... Bofton, Mafs. 

Redwood Library Newport, R.I. 

State Library of Maffachufetts Bofton, Mafs. 

State Library of New York Albany, N.Y. 

State Library of Rhode Ifland Providence, R.I. 

State Library of Vermont Montpelier, Vt. 

Williams College Library -Williamftown, Mafs. 

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PUBLICATIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



New England's Prospect. 

A true, lively and experimental! defcription of that part of America^ commonly called 
New England : difcovering the State of that Countrie, both as it ftands to our nev/- 
come Engli/Ji Planters; and to the old Natiue Inhabitants. By William Wood. 
London, 1634. Preface by Charles Deane, LL.D. 

The Hutchinson Papers. 

A Colleflion of Original Papers relatiue to the Pliflory of the Colony of Maffachu- 
fetts-Bay. Reprinted from the edition of 1769. Edited by William H. Whitmore, 
A.M., and William S. Appleton, A.M. 2 vols. 

John Dunton's Letters from New England. 

Letters written from New England A.D. 1686. By John Dunton in which are 
defcribed his voyages by Sea, his travels on land, and the charadlers of his friends 
and acquaintances. Now firft publilhed from the Original Manufcript in the Bodleian 
Library. Oxford. Edited by William H. Whitmore, A.M. 

The Andros Tracts. 

Being a Collection of Pamphlets and Official Papers iffiied during the period be- 
tween the overthrow of the Andros Government and the eftablifhment of the fecond 
Charter of Maffachufetts. Reprinted from the original editions and manufcripts. 
With a Memoir of Sir Edmund Andros, by the editor, William H. Whitmore, A.M. 
3 vols. 

Sir William Alexander and American Colonization. 

Including three Royal Charters, iffued in 1621, 1625, 1628 ; a Tra6l entitled an 
Encouragement to Colonies, by Sir William Alexander, 1624 ; a Patent, from the 
Great Council for New England, of Long IHand, and a part of the prefent State of 
Maine ; a Roll of the Knights Baronets of New Scotland ; with a Memoir of Sir 
William Alexander, by the editor, the Rev. Edmund F. Slafter, A.M. 



Note. — Communications for officers of the Prince Society may be directed to 
x8 Somerset Street, Boston. 



JOT 4 1874 



LIBRARY Qp 




